Thursday, July 23, 2009

These Tibetan medical tangkas were "painted by the Nepalese tangka artist Romio Shrestha and his Tibetan, Nepalese, and Bhutanese students in Kathmandu during seven years in the late 1980's and early 1990's."The Face of Impermanence

Images of Impermanence

Cadaver

Vulnerable Points

The Inner Mandala

Chakras and Energy Channels

Chakras and Energy Channels

Topographical Lines of Channels

"Thangkas illustrations of the points of the body associated with bloodletting, moxibustion and minor surgery, differentiated, respectively, by the use of the colors blue, yellow and red."

Bloodletting Channels

Dzogchen Channels

Cranial Physiognomy

Anatomy of Light

Anatomical Grids

-some of these illustrations come from the book The Tibetan Art of Healing by Ian A. Baker - worldcat [link] Powell's books [link] - amazon [link]others (along with many more) are from the American Museum of Natural History's collection "Body & Spirit: Tibetan Medical Paintings" [link]Romio Shrestha's website [link]

-American University of Beirut Jafet Library's Political Posters 1960s-1980s collection [link]for more great posters and thoughts on the power of the poster see Zeina Maasri's book Off the Wall: Political Posters of the Lebanese Civil War - on worldcat [link] at Powell's Books [link]

Friday, July 17, 2009

The Chicagoan was a Chicago culture magazine published from June 1926 until April 1935. In the years after it folded the magazine was largely forgotten about until 73 years later when Neil Harris rediscovered the magazine and published The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age.

“It’s a crescent-shaped town, 26 miles by 15, along a great lake that’s begun to weaken and recede. No wonder. An unchallenged murder record — a splendid university — hobo capital to the country — railroad ruler, corn baron, liquor king — and the finest of grand opera. Altogether the most zestful spectacle on this sphere.”

June 14, 1926

March 26, 1927

October 8, 1927

March 10, 1928

April 7, 1928

August 11, 1928

September 22, 1928

April 27, 1929

March 15, 1930

April 26, 1930

October 25, 1930

January 17, 1931

March 28, 1931

June 6, 1931

-See more at the Chicago Press online gallery [link]Also see the book The Chicagoan : A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age - at Powell's [link] at worldcat [link]various articles on the The Chicagoan [link] [link] [link]wikipedia article [link]

-these maps are from Japanese Historical Maps from the East Asian Library of University of California, Berkeley [link]more at University of Texas, Austin's Historic Maps of Asia [link]also see Japanese Imperial Army Maps Online (in Japanese) [link]and Tohoku University Library's Kano collection (in Japanese) [link]